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Meta and GoFundMe team up to streamline social media donations
22 Oct

Meta and GoFundMe team up to streamline social media donations

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Meta and GoFundMe by which folks use social media to donate to charitable causes. GoFundMe links will still be shared via social media, but now they’ll boast a suite of improvements. This integration impacts both Instagram and Facebook.The companies say the new GoFundMe links create an “interactive experience for potential donors.” To that end, there’s a big and bold new donate button that jettisons users to the official GoFundMe page to complete the transaction. The social media posts are also now dynamic, meaning they change in real time as the amount of money raised and the number of donors fluctuates.…
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One of our favorite budget robot vacuums is 33 percent off right now
22 Oct

One of our favorite budget robot vacuums is 33 percent off right now

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The Roborock Q5 DuoRoller+ robot vacuum is on sale via Amazon for just $300. That’s 33 percent off and a record low, as the regular price is $450. This is a limited time deal, for those who tend to mull things over for significant periods of time. No judgment. I do that too.In any event, this model actually made our list of the best budget robot vacuums. We loved the suction power, the precision LiDAR mapping and the robust app and voice controls. The DuoRoller+ is actually an updated version of the original Q5 with a bevy of upgrades. The…
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Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads
22 Oct

Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads

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It's now harder to know where celebrities are flying to and their carbon emissions, with Meta shutting down Instagram and Threads accounts devoted to tracking private jets, TechCrunch reports. "Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy," Meta told the publication. Deleted accounts include those tracking the flights of Taylor Swift, Bill Gates and, the head of Meta himself, Mark Zuckerberg.Jack Sweeney, a college student in his early 20s who runs the accounts, confirmed the news on his personal account. It's the…
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WhatsApp will soon let users add contacts from any device
22 Oct

WhatsApp will soon let users add contacts from any device

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WhatsApp just announced that it’ll soon let users add contacts from any device, and not just a primary phone, thus solving one of life’s little annoyances. A forthcoming update will let people add and manage contacts via the web client, on a Windows PC and “eventually other linked devices.”Users will also be able to save a contact exclusively to WhatsApp without syncing to a phone, which is useful when sharing a handset with others or for those who manage both work and personal WhatsApp accounts on the same device. Meta says that this will also solve the problem of people…
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Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio
22 Oct

Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio

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Netflix's gaming arm is best known for its indie and mobile titles, but the company recently made a push into AAA by hiring execs from high-profile franchises like Halo, Overwatch and God of War. That strategy may be coming to an end, though, as Netflix is shutting down its AAA studio known as Team Blue, the company confirmed to Game File.In 2022, Netflix brought on former Overwatch boss Chacko Sonny to head up a new SoCal-based AAA studio. A year later, former Halo exec Joseph Staten was hired on as Creative Director, followed by God of War art director Rafael…
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The Morning After: Ford tells EV owners to stop using its Tesla adapter
22 Oct

The Morning After: Ford tells EV owners to stop using its Tesla adapter

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Ford has issued a bulletin urging people to stop using its Tesla Supercharger adapter. It . The company says it will send a replacement adapter soon and asks users to return the faulty one. Both the replacement and the shipping cost to send back the original will be free of charge.It’s another high-profile stumble for Ford, especially since this adapter was delayed several times already due to supplier issues. Plus, it’s not as if these adapters are toys, given they’re hooking up to Superchargers capable of pumping out 250kW. Ford must also be smarting that it had to sign a…
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Nintendo Alarmo review: Charming, yet frustrating
22 Oct

Nintendo Alarmo review: Charming, yet frustrating

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Alarmo is the quintessential Nintendo product: It's a fun and quirky spin on a bedside alarm clock (with a motion sensor!) that mines your love for everything Nintendo. It's a $100 device entirely meant to surprise and delight you. But there are also usability issues that make me think the company's engineers haven't encountered any modern gadgets over the past decade (which is how long they've been developing Alarmo).Here's an example: There's no easy way to input your Wi-Fi password if you ever want to download new themes. Instead you have to patiently spin its bulbous top button until you…
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Wall Street Journal and New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement
22 Oct

Wall Street Journal and New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement

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The Wall Street Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, and the New York Post are suing AI-powered search startup Perplexity for using their content to train its large language models. Both News Corp. publications are accusing Perplexity of copyright infringement for using their articles to generate answers to people's queries, thereby taking traffic away from the publications' websites. "This suit is brought by news publishers who seek redress for Perplexity’s brazen scheme to compete for readers while simultaneously freeriding on the valuable content the publishers produce," the publishers wrote in their complaint, according to the Journal.In their lawsuit, the publications argued…
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Meta is bringing back facial recognition with new safety features for Facebook and Instagram
21 Oct

Meta is bringing back facial recognition with new safety features for Facebook and Instagram

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Meta is bringing facial recognition tech back to its apps more than three years after it shut down Facebook’s “face recognition” system amid a broader backlash against the technology. Now, the social network will begin to deploy facial recognition tools on Facebook and Instagram to fight scams and help users who have lost access to their accounts, the company said in an update.The first test will use facial recognition to detect scam ads that use the faces of celebrities and other public figures. “If our systems suspect that an ad may be a scam that contains the image of a…
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The Morning After: We test Canon’s new EOS R5 II
21 Oct

The Morning After: We test Canon’s new EOS R5 II

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If you’re after a high-resolution mirrorless camera, most folks in the know will point you to the Sony’s A1. Canon, annoyed at not being everyone’s first choice, is fighting back with its new , a 45-megapixel mirrorless with plenty of bells and whistles. Engadget’s Steve Dent knows a thing or two about high-end cameras, . It isn’t perfect, but he was impressed by the faster shooting and better autofocus, especially given the A1 is a lot more expensive. To learn all about the new R5 II and decide if it’s the camera to put at the top of your wish…
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